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Single-piece pizza container with fold and hold mechanism

  • US 6,386,441 B2
  • Filed: 01/25/2001
  • Issued: 05/14/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
First Claim
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1. In a container blank formed from a single piece of paperboard material, the assembled container for holding a pizza;

  • the blank including a generally rectangular bottom panel having four edges and a depth dimension;

    first and second opposing side wall panels each hingedly connected to opposing edges of the bottom panel;

    first and second opposing end wall panels hingedly connected to the remaining two opposing edges of the bottom panel;

    the depth dimension of the bottom panel being measured from the opposing edges of the bottom panel connecting to the first and second end wall panels;

    the height of the container as assembled being substantially less than the container depth or width;

    an improvement comprising;

    a first top cover panel connected to the first end wall panel along a first hinge line, the first top cover panel having a depth dimension sized less than the depth dimension of the bottom panel;

    at least one U-shaped cut formed along the first hinge line, the U-shape cut forming a portion having a closed side and an open side, the cut being oriented with the closed side extending into one of the first end wall panel and the first top cover panel, the open side being positioned along the first hinge line, wherein as assembled the U-shaped portion is generally perpendicular with the panel from which it was formed; and

    a second top cover panel having front and rear edges, the second top cover panel being hingedly connected at its front edge to the second end wall panel, the second cover panel having a depth dimension sized less than the depth dimension of the bottom panel.

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